Adobe ACROBAT READER 4.0 - 2 User manual

Contents
•Using Acrobat Reader
•Printing PDF documents
•Using Reader for UNIX
•Viewing PDF documents
•Navigating PDF documents
•Filling out forms
•Copying and pasting text and
graphics to another application
•Using PDF on theWeb
•Calibrated color

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Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0
Adobe
®
Acrobat
®
Reader 4.0
Adobe
®
Acrobat
®
Reader can be downloaded free of charge from the Adobe
Web site at http://www.adobe.com.On the AdobeWeb site home page,you
can click a country name in the Adobe Sites pop-up menu to choose a
language for viewing the site.The exact information in the site may vary from
one language version to another.
Using Acrobat Reader
The Acrobat Reader allows anyone to view,navigate,and print documents in
the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).
You may make and distribute unlimited copies of Acrobat Reader,including
copies for commercial distribution,as long as each copy you make and
distribute includes all of the following:
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The Acrobat Reader installer,exactly as provided by Adobe
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The Acrobat Reader Electronic End User License Agreement
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Copyright and other proprietary notices included in Acrobat Reader
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The following attribution statement on any media and packaging that
includes Reader:

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“Acrobat
®
ReaderCopyright
©
1987-1999AdobeSystemsIncorporated.Allrights
reserved.Adobe,the Adobe logo,Acrobat,and the Acrobat logo are trade-
marks of Adobe Systems Incorporated.”
The Acrobat Reader Electronic End User License Agreement and proprietary
notices are contained in the Reader or Reader installer program.You are
expressly prohibited from modifying or creating your own installer for the
Acrobat Reader software.Details on the terms of use for the Acrobat Reader
products are found in the Acrobat Reader Electronic End User License
Agreement presented during installation of each product.
A special“Includes Adobe Acrobat”logo is available from Adobe for use when
distributing Acrobat Reader.See the AdobeWeb site (www.adobe.com)
for details.
Opening PDF documents
The creator of a PDF document can set the document to open in a variety of
ways.For example,a document might open to a particular page number,at a
particular magnification,or with the bookmarks or thumbnails visible.
If a document is set to open in Full Screen view,the tool bar,menu bar,and
window controls are not visible.You can exit Full Screen view by pressing
Escape,if your preferences are set this way,or by pressing Ctrl+L (Microsoft
®
Windows
®
and UNIX
®
) or Command+L (Mac OS).For more on this view,see
Reading documents in Full Screen view.

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To open a PDF document:
Do one of the following:
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Click the Open button ,or choose File > Open.In the Open dialog box,
select the filename,and click Open.PDF documents usually have the
extension .pdf.
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Choosethedocument’s filename fromthe Filemenu.The menulists the four
PDF documents you last opened.
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Double-click the file icon in your file system.
Note: In MacOS,youmaynot beabletoopena PDFdocument createdin
Windowsbydouble-clicking theicon.Ifdouble-clickingthe iconinMacOS
doesnotopenthedocument,useFile>Open inAcrobatReadertoopenthe
document,closethe document,andtryagain.Afteryou’veusedtheOpen
commandonceonthe document,you’llbeabletoopen thedocumentnext
timebydouble-clicking.
In Acrobat Reader 4.0,you can view and print PDF documents that contain
Japanese,Korean,Traditional Chinese,and Simplified Chinese text if you use
the appropriate language kit at installation.
To display a list of all Acrobat Reader command-line options (UNIX),start the
Acrobat Reader product with the -help option.For example:
acroread -help

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Viewing PDF documents on theWeb
You can view PDF documents that are on theWorldWideWeb or an intranet
using aWeb browser.Every document on theWeb is identified by a unique
address called a Uniform Resource Locator (URL).When a PDF document is
stored on theWeb,you can click a URL link to it to open the document in your
Web browser.
Reading PDF documents in a Web browser
PDF documents can display inWeb browsers compatible with Netscape
®
Navigator
®
4.0 (or later) or Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 (or later).The
necessaryplug-insareautomaticallyinstalledwhenyouinstallAcrobatReader.
For information on getting your browser ready,see Installing theWeb browser
plug-in.(If pages of your PDF document appear blank when viewed in aWeb
browser,you may be using an early version of aWeb server.Try saving the PDF
file locally,and viewing it using Acrobat Reader.)
When you view a PDF document in aWeb browser,all of the Acrobat Reader
tools are available in the browser.InWindows,you can click the two small
vertical lines (next to the Adobe icon at the left of the tool bar) to minimize or
maximize the tool bar.
Note: Many keyboardcommandsare mappedtotheWebbrowserratherthan
toAcrobatReader,sosome AcrobatReaderkeyboardshortcutsmay notbe
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Opening a PDF file embedded as an OLE object in
another file
You can read PDF documents that have been incorporated into other
documentscreatedbyanyOLE (ObjectLinking andEmbedding)1.0 orOLE 2.0
container application such as MicrosoftWord,Excel
®
,or PowerPoint
®
.
To view an embedded PDF file:
1 Open the document into which the PDF document has been embedded.
2 Double-click the Acrobat icon in the document.Acrobat Reader launches
and displays the activated PDF document.
Note: Youcannotmakechangesor savewhileinAcrobatReader.
Printing PDF documents
You can print and view PDF documents from Acrobat Reader.
To print a PDF document:
1 Use File > Page Setup to set general printing options.The available options
will vary with different printers and drivers.See your printer driver documen-
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2 Click the Print button ,or choose File > Print.Specify the printer,page
range,number of copies,and other options,and click OK.Most of the options
are the same as they are for other applications,but note the following:
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Selected Pages Or Selected Graphic (Windows) or SelectedThumbnails/
Graphic (Mac OS) prints only the pages or page area you selected before
opening the Print dialog box.
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Page From/To prints a range of pages.InWindows,if the Use Logical Page
Numbers option is selected in General preferences,you can enter page-
position numbers in parentheses to print those pages.For example,if the first
page of a document is numbered“iii”,you can enter (1) to print that page.
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Annotations prints annotation graphics on the pages.The annotations are
printed as closed,even if they are open on the pages online.
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FitToPagescales pagesupor down(andif necessary rotatesthem) tofit the
paper size currently installed in your printer.This is not available in most other
applications.
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PrintAsImage(Windows)printsthepagesasbitmapimages.(InMacOS,this
is set in the Print Method pop-up menu.)You may want to print pages as
images if they have too many fonts to print as PostScript
®
or if the pages use
non-embedded Asian fonts not available on your system.
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Print Method,inWindows,specifies which level of PostScript to generate for
the pages.Choose the level of PostScript appropriate for your printer.In Mac

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OS,this specifies whether to print using PostScript (without selecting level) or
to print pages as bitmap images.
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Force Language Level 3 (Mac OS) prints the pages using LanguageLevel 3
PostScript.Select this option if you’re printing PostScript to a file rather than to
a printer and you want to use LanguageLevel 3 PostScript.(When you send
PDF to a printer,let the printer driver specify what level of PostScript to use.)
This is available only when you choose PostScript in the Print Method pop-up
menu;ifyouchoosePostScriptinthemenuanddonotselectthisoption,Level
2 PostScript is used.
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Download Asian Fonts downloads Asian fonts to a PostScript printer.Select
this option if you want to print a PDF document with Asian fonts but do not
have the fonts installed on the printer and do not have the fonts embedded in
thedocument.(Embedded fontsaredownloaded whetheror notthisoption is
selected.)You can use this option with a PostScript Level 2 or higher printer,or
a Level 1 printer that supportsType 0 font extensions.
Note: Somefontscannotbedownloadedtoaprinter,eitherbecausethefontis
abitmaporbecauseembeddingofthefontisrestrictedin thatdocument.In
thesecases,a substitutefontisusedfor printing,and theprintedoutputmay
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If Download Asian Fonts is not selected,the PDF document prints correctly
only if the referenced fonts are installed on the printer.If the fonts are not on
the printer but the printer has similar fonts,the printer substitutes the similar
fonts.If there are no suitable fonts on the printer,Courier is used for the text.
If youhave aPostScript Level 1printer thatdoes not supportType 0fontexten-
sions,or if Download Asian Fonts does not produce the results you want,print
the PDF document as a bitmap image.Printing a document as an image may
take longer than using a substituted printer font.
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Use Printer Halftone Screens prints halftones using the printer’s halftone
screens.If you do not select this option,the halftones are printed using
halftone information from the PDF file.
Note: IfUsePrinterHalftoneScreens isnotselected,and ifthehalftoneinfor-
mationsent totheprinterfromthe PDFfileisnotappropriate forthatprinter,
thescreens mayproduce“muddy”images.
Printing PDF documents from the command line (UNIX)
Besides printing directly from within Reader by choosing File > Print,you can
printPDFfilesfromthecommandline.Toprintthefile sample.pdf tothedefault
printer,type the following:

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% cat sample.pdf | acroread -toPostScript | lp
Note: IfaPDFfilehas beensecuredwithanOpenpasswordordoesnotallow
printing,youwill notbe abletoprintfromthe commandline.
You can use options to control your print job from the command line.Options
available to Reader are the following.
To create a LanguageLevel 2 PostScript file:
-level2
To print a PDF file to a differently named PostScript file:
-pairs <pdf filename> <PostScript filename>
For example,to print sample.pdf to test.ps ,you would use the following syntax:
acroread -toPostScript -pairs sample.pdf test.ps
To use the printer’s default halftone screens instead of custom halftone
screens included in the file:
-printerhalftones